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American politician
William David Blakeslee Ainey
(April 8, 1864 ? September 4, 1932) was a
Republican
member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
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Born in
New Milford, Pennsylvania
, he attended the
State Normal School
at
Mansfield, Pennsylvania
, and
Lehigh University
in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
, in 1887. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in
Montrose, Pennsylvania
. He served as district attorney for
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
, from 1890 to 1896. He organized Company G of the
Pennsylvania National Guard
and served as
captain
from 1889 to 1894.
William D. B. Ainey
Ainey was elected as a Republican to the
62nd United States Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
George W. Kipp
. He was reelected to the
63rd United States Congress
. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1914.
Ainey was a delegate to the
International Parliamentary Union
for International Peace held at
Geneva, Switzerland
, in 1912, and at
The Hague
in 1913. He served as secretary and president of the Japanese-American group of inter-parliamentarians and delegate in 1914 to
Tokyo
, Japan, and to
Stockholm
, Sweden. He resumed the practice of law in Montrose. He was appointed a member of the Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania on May 20, 1915, and on August 20, 1915, was elected chairman. He was reappointed for a ten-year term as member and chairman on July 1, 1917, and again on July 1, 1927. He was appointed chairman of the Pennsylvania Fuel Commission in August 1922. He served as president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners in 1924. He died in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
, in 1932. Interment in Montrose Cemetery in Montrose, Pennsylvania.
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